Solution offered to KTM despite a bid for a fifth bike being bluntly rejected
Factory duo 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder, Tech3 GASGAS pair 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pol Espargaro and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez, and Moto2 graduate Pedro Acosta are all contracted for a premier class seat in the 2024 MotoGP rider liඣne-up.
However, Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta has again refused KTM’s wish to have a fifth bike next season - but he has offe♉red them hope with a new idea.
"Let's see if it's clear,” Ezpeleta was quoted🥃 by about KTM expanding their presence 🧸on the grid.
“There has never bee🐲n a fifth bike for KTM and there isn't one. Okay?
“I don't know where you get that from because I've told everyone who has asked me: There are no m🌃ore bikes because the existing system is working very well.
“Independent teams have rightsജ and value that they would not have if you gave everyone who arrived a motorcycle.
Ezpeleta said about how KTM can solve the issue of having an extra 🔥rider: "That's not a problem. It's as if Barc♛elona had 12 players and said: 'Now what do we do?'
“Well, one stays on the bench. Wไell, it's the same.
“They have four positions and five riders.
“I think t💛hat having, in a world championship as long as we have now, having five riders prepared to be able to get on any of those four bikes, is a good solution.
“That, together with the fact that the𒊎re are some wild cards, as it will help all the riders to be busy for most of the t👍ime.
“We are goi൩ng to propose that there be more wild cards.
“Thes⛄e are not c𓂃oncessions, they are wild cards for everyone.”
The quantity 🎐of injuries this season in MotoGP, and the addition of sprint races into the format, has been plenty of reserve riders꧋ competing in races.
This weekend at the Catalunya M🧸otoGP for example, Iker Lecuona will fill in for Alex Rins agai🧸n.
It will beౠ Lecuona’s fifth MotoGP outing of the👍 season.
🦋So, KTM could use one of their five contracted riders in a ‘reserve’ ro🍷le, ready to step in for either their factory or satellite teams in the case of an injury.
And the addition of extra wildcards means that the reserve rider could rack up the equivalent of half-a-season or ꦗmorꦡe, depending on injuries.
Now, KTM must work ou🉐t which of their five riders♈ - Miller, Binder, Espargaro, Fernandez or Acosta - to use in that role.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports🧸 for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
